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Her obituary in the Evening Star described her as "Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, an authority on the Zuni and kindred tribes of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, who was to have retired from her position in the Bureau of Ethnology in the Smithsonian Institution June 30th, after twenty-six years of service."
Effie Calavaza was born in 1927 in Zuni, New Mexico as Effie Lankeseon, [4] [5] where she lived her entire life. [6] She married Juan Calavaza (1910–1970), also a jewelry artist, who taught her the art. Until her husband's death in 1970, she signed her own work with her husband's signature, "JUAN C.–ZUNI".
In 1968, Herrera was hired to lead a New Mexico State Employment Commission and help Native Americans find jobs. [7] For seven years he worked as a newscaster at KTRC radio station in Santa Fe. [7] After retiring from his public service work in 1983, he returned to painting. [7] By the early 1990s, his eyesight was poor and he stopped painting. [7]
The Halona Pueblo, also known as Zuni Pueblo, is located 36 miles south of Gallup, New Mexico on NM 32 & NM 53. The pueblo dates from before 1539, which was when Europeans first visited New Mexico. It was one of the original six pueblos of the Zuni people .
Cushing at Zuni, c. 1881-82., by John K. Hillers. Cushing was invited by Powell to join the James Stevenson anthropological expedition to New Mexico. The group traveled by rail to the end of the line at Las Vegas, New Mexico, then on to Zuni Pueblo. Fascinated by this culture, Cushing gained permission to stay at the pueblo.
The Zuni (Zuni: A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley. The Zuni people today are federally recognized as the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, and most live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico, United ...
The U.S. Attorney's Office, in a news release issued Thursday, said Tsethlikai is suspected in "a series of violent crimes targeting Native American men across New Mexico between 2022 and 2024 ...
The main reservation is surrounded by the Painted Cliffs, the Zuni Mountains, and the Cibola National Forest. The reservation's total land area is 723.343 sq mi (1,873.45 km 2). As noted above, the Zuni Tribe also has land holdings in Apache County, Arizona, and Catron County, New Mexico, that do not border the main reservation.